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ChazH
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Posted - 02/23/2013 :  13:29:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

Hi All,

New to SQL Server and new to the forum!

How would I go about removing the area code from a customer table?

The column is nvarchar(30) numbers are stored as (345)111-1111 and I want to reformat to 1111111.

Thanks in advance!

James K
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Posted - 02/23/2013 :  17:56:30  Show Profile  Reply with Quote 
REPLACE(STUFF(PhoneNumberColumn,1,CHARINDEX(')',PhoneNumberColumn),''),'-','')
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ChazH
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Posted - 02/23/2013 :  22:30:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks I will try it out!
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ChazH
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Posted - 02/25/2013 :  16:59:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks again for your help but I was not able to figure out the format for this command.

The table is dbo.customer and the column name is customer.phonenumber. I tried a bunch of different things but could not get it to work on my test database.
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James K
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Posted - 02/25/2013 :  17:22:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If you want to keep the data in the table as it is and remove the area code in a select, do this:

SELECT REPLACE(STUFF(phonenumber,1,CHARINDEX(')',phonenumber),''),'-','') FROM dbo.customer
If you want to permanently change the table by updating it to remove the area code, do this:
UPDATE dbo.customer SET
   phonenumber = REPLACE(STUFF(phonenumber,1,CHARINDEX(')',phonenumber),''),'-','');
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ChazH
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Posted - 02/25/2013 :  18:25:05  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks! I will learn the syntax tonight and try it out on my test server tomorrow.
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